Study's Claim on 'Myth' of Obama's Small Donor Base Challenged »
Posted By ameliog 1 year, 1 month ago in Political NewsThe Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) study asserting that Barack Obama actually raised most of his campaign money from "larger" not "small" donors has gained wide, approving, coverage in recent days, from, among others, USA Today, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and countless web sites. Almost inevitably such accounts have held a headline referring to the "myth" of Obama riding a wave of small donations to victory. The study's author himself uses it.
But the "myth" is actually in the spinning of the report, including by its author, Michael Malbin, a former speechwriter for Dick Cheney, when he was Pentagon chief, and a resident fellow at The American Enterprise Institute from 1977 to 1986. .
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In ...
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